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After its thrashing in last
month’s presidential election, the party that pledged to shake up
South African politics appeared to self-destruct yesterday amid claims that
its leader, Mamphela Ramphele, had committed fraud.

Donald Tontsi, a member of Agang
SA, called for Dr Ramphele and the chief operating officer to be
suspended over allegations that they defrauded the party of 60,000 rand
(£3,300).

Dr Ramphele, a co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement who had a child
by the anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, had already announced that she
was bowing out of politics for a while after her party polled just 0.28